Sakata was a bit restless. He looked at their reaction when he said it, he didn't know why the big fuss. He felt something weird in his gut like something bad will happen soon. He didn't want any concerns storming inside his brain, he only wanted some peace. He looked at the window, it was already evening and it seemed cloudy again with no rain. He went to the kitchen to drink something he felt dehydrated, he drank a glass of water and sat on the kitchen table thinking 'What on earth is happening? My life is heading in a direction filled with mysteries and darkness, is this my legacy?'. He was staring at the empty glass of water not noticing who was sitting in front of him, he lifted his head and was amazed. It was one of the hooded figures sitting looking at him, he didn't know what to do other than staring at him then a thought came to him to call Mika or Mano but when he was about to get up the hooded figure said, "Sit down please"
Sakata didn't want to object so he sat down, his voice was a deep cave-like voice that belongs to a man in his mid-thirties. Sakata asked, "Who are you?"
The figure removed his hood revealing his face. He was human-like with a nose and other features not like what Sakata had expected, he had a big sky blue eyes, his nose was small and pointed with thin lips, he was blonde with rosy skin. He said, "I am one of the grim reapers and my name is Mark Wales "
Sakata thought he misheard him, so he asked "A what?"
Mark "A grim reaper, you seem not well informed about anything at all"
Sakata sarcastically"If my name isn't Sakata I won't be surprised" Sakata smiled but Mark made no reaction. Sakata fell silent looking at him, he couldn't help himself from asking questions, before he could speak anything Mark said, "You resemble your father but your eyes and mouth resembles your mother"
Sakata "You know her?"
Mark "I know everyone especially your mother she was my friend"
Sakata "What do you mean?"
Mark didn't answer instead he kept staring at him then he said, "You seem harmless while you are the most dangerous being for everyone even yourself, I should kill you but it will only make things worse"
Sakata didn't dare to speak, he instead looked at the kitchen door waiting for someone to come and save him
Mark"Don't even think about calling anybody, they won't come"
Sakata worringly "Will you kill me?"
Mark "I can do no such a thing. I am supposed to just sit and wait for the storm to come"
Sakata "What storm ?"
Mark "Don't ruin everything your mother build with sweat and blood to protect you from everyone. Just remember this, once the moment comes don't hesitate to make the right choice the whole world is counting on you"
He wore the hood and vanished. Sakata was stunned by what just he had witnessed. Mika came looking puzzled at him he asked, "What are you looking at?"
Sakata who didn't want another panicking situation "Possibilities of what is happening"
Mika felt guilty and sympathy "Don't worry about it, soon you will know everything"
Sakata "How soon?"
Mika "Your father is the one who is supposed to tell you everything so you have to wait until he comes back"
Sakata "And what if he didn't?"
Mika "What do you mean by that?"
Sakata "Nothing"
Mika went out from the kitchen and asked Mano "Did he answered yet?"
Mano was surprised "No, no one is answering their phone"
Mika "What the hell they are taking so long? It's half-past eight when will they come back?"
Mano "Didn't Mr Shettsu take usually days on this trip?"
Mika sighed "Only two days but someone is following us, Who could it be?"
Mano "Yeah who would put Salem book in a library?"
Sakata walking to the living room "The librarian!"
They both looked puzzled at him, he continued "You remember what he said, right? He said it was the last copy and the others were destroyed so we should take care of it or we will be fined"
Mano remembered "My god, I forgot we will be fined because Mr Mika threw it out of the property"
Mika "It was for the best. The last thing we want here is Sakata performing a spell while he was hexed, and he is probably still under the hex"
Sakata immediately "I feel fine but it's too much information in one night, and I understand nothing because none of you is telling me the truth"
Mano "We can't, we only told you what we knew, or what I know"
He looked at Mika who rolled his eyes, picked the phone and called someone who surprisingly answered. Mano asked after he finished the call "Who was it?"
Mika "Sauro"
Sakata who didn't want to see no one at the moment especially his uncle Sauro asked, "Why him?"
Mika "He knows what to do with you, and he can provide us what we need"
Sakata bitterly"Information?"
Mika angrily "No, can you stop it I am losing my nerves, this is happening so quickly God!"
Sakata and Mano went silent for the next few hours until someone knocked on the door. Mika went and opened the door for Sauro. He resembled Shettsu in appearance but with more elegant clothing, his hair was short and back from his face not like Shettsu who simply was letting it on his face. He was as tall as Shettsu with deep crimson eyes and less paled skin, his hair was black and his body. He was worried, and without even saying hello to Mika he went straight to Sakata asking, "How are you? Is everything okay? Do you want anything?"
Sakata stood up to greet him but Sauro said, "No sit down you must be tired"
Sakata trying to calm things down "I am fine, please don't worry I feel fine"
Sauro sighed out of relief and sat on the sofa that opposing the one that Sakata and Mano.
Mika "Do you notice my existence now? Is hello so heavy on you to say?"
Sauro "Shut up Mika, please spare me this chat later you almost got me a heart attack when you said Sakata needs me"
Mika "And he does, did you notice anything different about him?"
Sauro looked again and noticed the changes about him. He went pale and asked, "What happened?"
Mika "They visited him, the hooded figures and spoke to him in some language that Sakata couldn't understand anything from, only one word"
Sauro curiously"What is it?"
Mika coldly " Hades"
Sauro was stunned, he froze as if he was a statue. He said after a lot of effort in a loud tone "What?"
Mika nodded, Sauro looked at Sakata to tell him otherwise but Sakata said, "That is the truth. Now can anyone please tell me anything helpful?"
Sauro swallowed his rib and said, "That is not good"
Sakata "Oh come on, please stop saying that it's making me nervous, What does it mean?"
Sauro "Don't you get it?"
Sakata "No!"
Sauro "Kiddo it means that you possess his powers"
Mika angrily "That is enough!"
Sakata "I still don't get it, you are only making me scared and confused"
Sauro "I hate the fact that they forbid you from all the fun"
Mika angrily "You are psycho, he is just a kid"
Sauro "He has the right to know everything"
Mano "That is true!"
They all looked at Mika who lost his temper again and said angrily "Oh so now I am the bad guy here? Let's all just blame me it's easier this way"
Sauro "Don't be dramatic. Where is Shettsu?"
Sakata "He went with uncle Settsu"
Sauro "To where?"
Mika "The great tree"
Sauro who now was angry "What? The great tree with Settsu? Does he want his head off?"
Mika "I warned him but he is stubborn and insisted that he must go with Settsu claiming it's time"
Sauro "What the hell is wrong with him? He is so unreasonable, God if you don't kill him, I will"
Mika sat on the sofa "At least you don't live with him"
Sauro smugly "That is the most appropriate punishment for you"
Mika "Stop it or else I will kill you"
Mano who had enough of this "Can you two please stay quiet? You are not helping"
Mika "You are right. Sauro, can you check on Sakata and see if he was hexed?"
Sauro "Hexed?" He stood up placing his hand gently on Sakata's head and closed his eyes, after two minutes he went back to his seat and said, "He was but now he is no longer hexed unless you bring the Source to him. What hexed him?"
Mano "Salem book"
Sauro puzzled "Pardon? What had happened? "
Mika "He picked it up and came with it"
Sakata "It didn't happen in this way. It just appeared in my hands after I noticed it"
Sauro "Let me guess the hooded guys showed off afterwards?"
Sakata nodded. Sauro frustrated "Damn it, someone knew that you will be there and put it to track you down"
Mika "This place is no longer safe then, we must go to somewhere else"
Sakata who started connecting things "Uncle Mika"
Mika "Yes dear"
Sakata "Did you saw me last night sleeping on the sofa and carried me to my room?"
Mika "No, why?"
Sakata "It's just that I had a dream, and in it, I had a conversation with dad and ended up making me want to go to the library"
Everyone went silent they all gazed at him puzzled, Mano was the first to ask, "You mean that your father placed the book there?"
Sakata "No I just was curious because in the morning I found that I had drunk chocolate milk and its trace was surrounding my upper lip, so I assumed that uncle Mika had brainwashed me and took me to my room"
Sauro sarcastically "You wash brains?"
Mika annoyed "He means deleting his memories stupid"
Sauro "Careful"
Mika "No I didn't, you woke up in the middle of the night went to the living room. I heard you switching on the television. You stayed up till 2 am when you then went back to sleep"
Mano "Why all the accuracy? Do you ever sleep?"
Mika "Not always"
Sakata went silent again and then asked, "Do grim reapers have the ability to change their look?"
Sauro "No, How do you know about them?"
Sakata hesitated for few seconds then said "I just saw one of them in the kitchen who said his name is Mark"
The three of them at the same time said "What?"
Before anyone could ask Sakata felt something weird started to happen. The table and the whole house was vibrating, it was an earthquake. Sauro and Mika went to the window and saw everything it shaking, from far a huge white light hitting the earth from the sky.
Mano "It's an earthquake get under the table"
Mika "No, it's not an earthquake"
Sauro went and opened the front door, everyone followed. They got out of the house looking at what seemed to be a huge light striking the earth.
Everyone was amazed and scared except Sakata he felt worried. He started breathing heavily and said, "Dad"
Sauro immediately turned at him asking, "What did you just say?"
Sakata was panicking "It's dad, something is wrong, please take me to him"
Mika "We can't it's dangerous"
Sakata cried "He is in the middle of that light I can sense him, and if we don't hurry to him he will die"